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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop + Giveaway

You probably came from Nicole Picadura. If not – you may consider starting from the beginning at Altenew blog and see what other members of Altenew’s design team have come up with (and also you have a chance to win a prize on each hop node)

Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are approaching, and this can be a difficult time for seniors who are in nursing homes or shelters. We want these important people to feel loved, celebrated, and honored, and we need your help!

The goal is to send cards for the elderly that lives in nursing homes or shelters to let them know they’re not forgotten. Please encourage people to check out the Celebrating Parents Card Drive and join this great cause by sending in cards. Feel free to add a link to the card drive blog post and include the card drive graphic in your blog hop post.

To begin, I first distressed the white cardstock panel usingAltenew Lagoon ink, then splattered with water, and when everything dried up, I heat embossed over the black ink using sparkling embossing powder. Then I cut out the joystick-shaped windows using coordinatig die, and replaced the piece of white paper cut earlier, using glue on the back side of the panel to keep the inlaid piece in place.

For the second card, I placed the stamps on the stamping tool, and stamped all the images on white paper, and the same on the mint cardstock. Then I colored the images using shimmer sprays and added a litlle bit Wink of Stella on top. Then I glued a mint cardstock panel over the images, and added a small banner.

The third card is my favorite. I stamped the flowers on paper with light inks, and lightly colored them using Altenew markers. After that, I added details with Faber-Castell pencils. To finish my card I stamped the sentiment in clear embossing ink and gold heat embossed.

Our goal is to send cards for the elderly that lives in nursing homes or shelters to let them know they’re not forgotten. Please encourage people to check out theCelebrating Parents Card Drive and join this great cause by sending in cards.

Altenew is giving away $50 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. Be sure to leave comments by Sunday, April 30th, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on May 2nd, 2017.

You're next stop on the hop is amazing Erum! I hope you enjoyed my cards and thanks for stopping by!

Fantastic, Kristina! All of your cards are awesome and I especially love two father's day cards. I've thaught mint shades are near girlish colors and I love how you matched these and father's theme perfectly!

I agree with you: the last one is my favorite, too. I am a sucker for floral images, and this one is just beautiful. It's too bad the males in my life aren't into florals! I am totally impressed that you have only been making cards a short time! I started in Dec, 2015 and my skill sets are nowhere close. Were you always artistic? I wasn't, but I have discovered that there are some things I CAN do, and that the joy is more about the creating process than the finished product. (Oh how I wish my school art teachers had taught that one instead of encouraging the really talented kids and ignoring the rest of us! ) It's all ok, and I am having fun now. Thanks for the inspiration. I am going to go play soon.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards. I particularly like your first "Dad" card - I really like the wonderful contrast between the bright background and the simple images - and also the beautiful colouring in your Mother's Day card.